Best Things Quotes - Page 29

• To play for your country is the best thing that can happen.

  Ruud Gullit

  Country, Play, Happens

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• Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.

  Timothy Keller

  Things In Life, Best Things In Life, Counterfeit

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.11, Penguin

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• Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse.

  William Shakespeare

  Adversity, Past, Seems

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.425

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• Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense

  Talib Kweli

  Common Sense, Records, Rhyme

  Song: Ghetto Show, Album: Beautiful Struggle, 2004

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• They're trying to exterminate our race. I think, probably in a moral sense, the Jewish people have been a blight. I mean as a whole, not every Jew. And they probably deserve to go into the ashbin of history. But saying that and actually shooting or killing people in masses, are two different things. I'm not advocating extermination. I think the best thing is to resettle them in someplace where they can't exploit others. And I don't think they can live among themselves, I really don't.

  David Duke

  Mean, Thinking, Race

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• The Framework Agreement is one of the best things the [Clinton] Administration has done because it stopped a nuclear weapons program in North Korea.

  Madeleine Albright

  Agreement, Korea, Done

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• I can answer that only by hearsay, returned the Guide, for pain is a secret which he has shared with your race and not with mine; and you would find it as hard to explain suffering to me as I would find it to reveal to you the secrets of the Mountain people. But those who know best say this, that any liberal man would choose the pain of this desire, even for ever, rather than the peace of feeling it no longer; and that though the best thing is to have, the next best is to want, and the worst of all is not to want.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Men, Race

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• Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!

  A. C. Benson

  Jam, Sticks, Pot

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• Kids need to see that Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to us. And they need to know it can happen to them.

  Sue Miller

  Jesus, Kids, Needs

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• It will be difficult to return to racing this weekend after Marco's terrible accident in Sepang but I think it is the best thing we can do to honour him,” says World Champ Casey Stoner. We know we all play a risky game and, even if compared to the past the safety of our sport is much better, unfortunately these kind of events still occur. We will go out there this weekend and try to put on a good show for all the fans and especially in memory of Marco.

  Casey Stoner

  Sports, Memories, Thinking

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• In short, the best thing to do is behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen or under, try not to go bald.

  Woody Allen

  Age, Trying, Sixteen

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me.

  Glenn Close

  Knives, Kitchen, Way

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• We think that idols are bad things, but that is almost never the case. The greater the good, the more likely we are to expect that it can satisfy our deepest needs and hopes. Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.

  Timothy Keller

  Thinking, Idols, Things In Life

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.11, Penguin

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• Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Powerful, Taken

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.50, Penguin

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• The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.

  Helen Keller

  Heart, Things In Life, Handicaps

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• It's the best thing ever - I love being a mom. This is my only child. My career was a priority earlier in my life, but now my son is definitely the priority.

  Stephanie Mills

  Mom, Children, Son

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• The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.

  Ted Allen

  Cooking, Feelings, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.

  Pietro Aretino

  Men, Birth, Born

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• I can say I won a Senior British Open at Turnberry. I think that's the best thing about it, the whole week, was playing this course. It's a challenging, very tough course, under extreme weather. But you know, it's nice to win any event.

  Fred Couples

  Senior, Nice, Winning

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• The best things carried to excess are wrong.

  Charles Churchill

  Excess

  Charles Churchill (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churcill: With memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes”, p.35

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• The best Thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in Look as much like home as we can.

  Christopher Fry

  Home, Looks, Lost

  'The Lady's not for Burning' (1949) act 3

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• The best things are not bought and sold.

  Walter Smith

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• If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

  Aldous Huxley

  Learning, Saint, Sage

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• If you want the best things to happen in corporate life you have to find ways to be hospitable to the unusual person. You don't get innovation as a democratic process. You almost get it as an anti-democratic process. Certainly you get it as an antithetical process, so you have to have an environment where the body of people are really amenable to change and can deal with the conflicts that arise out of change an innovation.

  Max De Pree

  People, Innovation, Climate

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• [Disestablishment was] the best thing that ever happened to the state of Connecticut. It cut the churches loose from dependence on state support. It threw them wholly on their own resources and on God.

  Lyman Beecher

  Cutting, Support, Atheism

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